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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slotting machine

1835

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Euston Station gates

1838

Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839

1839

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839